Mum used to make tacos a lot when we were kids. We used to love loading up our own tacos with mince, tasty cheese, shredded iceberg lettuce, grated carrot and chopped tomatoes which all sat colourfully, lined up in their individual bowls. I went through a stage of making these all the time back in […]
Damper in ‘old Ada’ was a blog post waiting to happen. Very good friends of ours, the Flemings, have a holiday house at old Adaminaby and we’ve been coming here since before the girls were born. Originally staying in ‘Camelot’, the Clarke’s house down on the lake and now in ‘Clancy Cottage’, affectionally renamed, ‘The […]
Nothing says ‘winter’ or ‘dinner party’ like a sticky date pudding does. For as long as I can remember Mum’s been making sticky date puds. She’s always made them as individual puddings in muffin tins and served them warm with butterscotch sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream, topped off with a fresh strawb. […]
Growing up, Mum and Dad used to host these elaborate black tie dinner parties. The open fire raging, the silverware all laid out to be polished and the smell of roast lamb wafting from the kitchen, there was a real sense of occasion in the air. I’d watch in awe as Mum put on her […]
If you follow Lo’s Kitchen, I’m sure you’re now used to seeing pics of food taken on our big old kitchen table. Looking closely, you would of noticed how ridiculously marked this much loved table is. It’s covered in paint (from our many messy craft sessions) and has so much flour caked in to the […]
I’m sitting here with a boiling hot cuppa enjoying some cold leftover bread and butter pudding. WOW! I don’t think there could be any better ‘special treat’ afternoon tea. My grandma Mim used to make this pudding often and I loved helping her butter the bread. I used to pick out the sultanas then, and […]
I saw something on Insta today. I saw this clip of master baker, Claire Ptak making the Royal Wedding cake for H + M. (Which brings me to think – why haven’t fashion power house H&M been milking it for the royal wedding)? They probably have. Anyway, the royal wedding cake is reportedly a three […]
Mum’s butterfly cakes sat in pride of place at every birthday party we ever had growing up. I have lots of memories making these too when I’d go out to Mim and Pa’s farm in the school holidays. My job was always to line the muffin tins with the patty cases and as the years […]
Growing up, one of my favourite meals was Mum’s ‘mince in pastry’. Hands down. Basically, Mum would make her bolognese mince and instead of serving it with the usual suspect – spaghetti, (which she used to add some chopped parsley and a dash of cream to) she would wrap it in puff pastry instead. Served […]
I caught up with a good friend Jim for a few beers on the weekend. We were in Boorowa for the picnic races where Cork Daddy and I helped put some food together for the rugby tent. I was delighted to hear that he’d had a go at making my slow cooked honey, mustard and […]
This dish is inspired by a lovely dessert Mim used to make using homegrown peaches and oranges from her trees on the farm. She used to cover the freshly picked peaches with a sprinkling of sugar, some freshly squeezed orange juice and a generous amount of Cointreau. Oh my gosh- talk about heaven on a […]
The iconic Anzac biscuit. Named after the ANZAC’s in World War I, they’re a deliciously sweet biscuit, going perfectly with a hot cup of tea. Made from flour, rolled oats and golden syrup, there are many different versions of Anzac biscuits, although the ingredients generally remain the same. I prefer the thin Anzac biccies that […]
If you haven’t heard of Yotam Ottolenghi before – go and check out one of his cookbooks. He’s an Israeli-British chef and cooks some amazing food drawing heavily from middle eastern flavours. He writes cookbooks, has a tv show and owns a heap of deli’s and restaurants across London. This apple and olive oil cake […]
Saturday mornings are for throwing some muffins in the oven. They’re so simple to whip up and make the house smell lovely. I cooked these very muffins at the end of last year when we sold our place in Wagga. A real estate agents oldest trick in the book; their advice to sellers is to […]
Do you absolutely love rice paper rolls but don’t have the time or energy to make them for dinner during the week? Then this is the dish for you. By all means, add the ingredients in to the rice paper and roll them up properly, but for a speedy and fuss free meal that tastes […]
This post is dedicated to my good friend, Lizard who helped me stuff around making my first ever cooking video today. We had so much fun doing it and although getting the Timelapse video for Insta took about 500 goes, this video below was our first and only take! Since uni days I’ve mucked around […]
Nachos are brilliant to dish up when friends come round for a few drinks on the weekend. How many times have you sat around a cheese board staring down the usual suspects – a wheel of Camembert, some stuffed olives, a bit of French onion dip, broken up with a box of Jatz dumped in […]
Who wants in on THE best cake recipe ever invented? A very good family friend of ours, Annabelle passed this recipe on to my mother in law who in turn passed it on to me. Annabelle is such a gorgeous girl that we even named our daughter Annabelle after her and I’ve lost count of the […]
Real men don’t eat quiche. That’s not true. Cork Daddy absolutely devours this quiche and I’ve never met anyone that doesn’t love these mini quiches. It was really hard choosing a heading for this recipe as I could of used any number of fitting descriptions such as: Fabulous party food, Toddler meals, Light lunches, Freezer […]
For mum’s 60th birthday party at Tomalong I cooked 12 kilos of pulled pork! That’s six slow cookers full! I had three slow cookers going during the day and woke up to my alarm in the middle of the night to tend to the meat. We had more pulled pork than you could poke a […]
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